Professor Geoffrey Alderman is the acknowledged authority on the history
of the Jews in modern Britain. During an academic career spanning forty
years he has produced some of the most authoritative and controversial
studies in this field, lighting up the dark corners of the Jewish
existence in Great Britain and revealing secrets the Anglo-Jewish
communities would rather have kept from public view. In Controversy and
Crisis, Alderman presents sixteen of these essays, covering fields as
disparate as the history of the Jewish vote in the UK, the true story of
the British Chief Rabbinate, and the uneasy tenure of Sir Jonathan Sacks
in that office. He also considers the role of the historian in
Anglo-Jewish life, and the troubled careers of some of its leaders and
scholars.